To what extent is Tourism good or bad?
On my recent trip to the Canaries, i saw something i had never seen before - cities, villages built up soley for tourists - nothing else. Beaches created out of nothing, sand imported. Purelly for leasure...
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Canaries is not designed for growing anything, it is associated with mars - the first people that came there where also tourists from colonised south america - now africans die on the sea in little boats to get there as the gateway to europe. Whilst mega yachts lie in the harbour.
SOUTH OF FRANCE - most of the houses owned there are by people from northern europe. The life in the winter belongs to the locals - in summer to those not from there. - the locals hate this rape of their heritage yet they need it.
AMSTERDAM - the drug culture and its myth of sex pulls in hoards of tourists everyday - it ads to the cosmopolitanism of the city - yet the dutch are are capable of being both outward and inward and regard it as interesting.
NEW YORK - it is difficult to know who is what.
OSLO - only tourists in summer in search of viking heritage which never existed - this town needs it - badly.
PHUKET and all those places - causes thai men to change sex so that they can make money
Easy cheap travel has its effects,
in some cases good maybe even elevating, aiding the economy, in others it overdoses and kills culture and even geography.
Of course you can always avoid the crowd by going away from the easy axessable sites, but as soon as say that this is a beautiful spot to others it will...
The park behind my house is quiet all year round
In the long run i think tourism rapes culture.
yet in some cases it is essential (not only for the ego)
To what extent is Tourism good or bad?
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